Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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"My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. " Reality melts away."
r. a. laffertyHelen, did Homer never see Thy beauties, yet could write of thee?
Ben JonsonHave I not made blind Homer sing to me?
Christopher MarloweThough I've never read a line of Homer I believe the Greekof today is essentially unchanged.If anything he is more Greek than he ever was.
As learned commentators view In Homer than Homer knew.
jonathan swiftLet us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.
george saintsburyIt was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
francis waylandIt was Homer who inspired the poet.
francis waylandRead Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?"
PlutarchMore proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
robert burtonSeven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
thomas heywoodHomer, the sovereign poet.
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.
[ Homer 's] Fire burns with extraordinary Heat and Vehemence ... Virgil's is a clearer and a chaster Flame ...
This Fire is discerned in Virgil, but discerned as through a glass, reflected from Homer , more shining than fierce, but every where equal and constant.
Alexander PopeIt was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
francis wayland